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This list showcases the top San Francisco, California based Director operating in the Venture Capital space. If you think a Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Kristina Burow
Managing Director of ARCH Venture Partners
Kristina Burow is a Managing Director with ARCH Venture Partners. Kristina Burow is focused on the creation and development of biotechnology, pharmaceutical and agbiotechnology companies.
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About ARCH Venture Partners: ARCH is an early-stage venture firm that focuses on life science discoveries to prevent, detect, and cure disease.
George Mathew
Managing Director of Insight Partners
George Mathew is a Managing Director at Insight Partners focused on earlier venture stage investments in AI, ML, Analytics, and Data companies as they are establishing Product/Market Fit. He brings 20+ years of experience developing high-growth technology startups including most recently being CEO of Kespry. Prior to Kespry, George was President & COO of Alteryx where he scaled up the company through its IPO (AYX). Previously he held senior leadership positions at SAP and salesforce.com. He has driven company strategy, led product management and development, and built sales and marketing teams. George holds a Bachelor of Science in Neurobiology from Cornell University and a Masters in Business Administration from Duke University, where he was a Fuqua Scholar.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Ganesh Bell
Managing Director of Insight Partners
A lifelong student of enterprise software industry and digital transformation Accomplished builder, operating executive and leader of change. Thought leader, market creator, product innovator, inspiring keynote speaker & evangelist. Battle tested success record across early stage startups, largest multinational corporations, hypergrowth to IPO and M&A. Rare ability to balance GTM & product-oriented CEO responsibilities. Breadth & depth across enterprise software markets (platforms, apps, BI, next gen data), industrial tech & digital business. Passionate builder of high performing culture & teams.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Whitney Bouck
Managing Director of Insight Partners
Whitney Bouck joined HelloSign as COO in 2016, where she is responsible for growing and scaling the company in partnership with the CEO, CTO and the executive team. HelloSign was acquired by Dropbox in 2019, and Whitney continues to serve as COO of the business inside Dropbox. She is on the board of Paycor and BlueOcean, was previously on the board of Ekata (acquired by Mastercard in 2021), is advisor to ARC and Anvilogic, and invester in LogDNA as well as early stage VC funds. Before joining HelloSign, she ran the global marketing organization at Box and built Box’s Enterprise business from the ground up, helping pivot the company from being an SMB-oriented product. Whitney also spent 15 years with Documentum and then EMC (via acquisition) and held a variety of leadership positions, including CMO of the Information Intelligence division at EMC. Previously, Whitney held a variety of technology and leadership roles at both Sybase and Oracle. She was recognized in 2017 as one of the top 40 Women in Revenue, in 2015 as one of the World’s 100 Most Innovative CMOs, previously recognized with the Silicon Valley Women of Influence award in 2009 and received the Top 40 Under 40 award in 2003.
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About HelloSign, Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Drew Harman
Managing Director of Insight Partners
Drew has more than 25 years of software startup experience as a strategy, product management and marketing executive. Since 2001, he been an investor and advisor to early-stage technology ventures, including Mainframe 2, Eucalyptus, Framehawk, AppCentral and Readyforce. Drew was also an early investor in insurance software provider Guidewire (NYSE:GWRE) and revenue management vendor Model N (NYSE:MODN). Previously, Drew was with Ariba, where as VP of Product Management he managed a team of 35 product managers across five product lines with annual revenues of $500m. Later, as VP of Corporate Strategy, he defined product strategy and drove M&A activity. He was formerly VP of Marketing for TradingDynamics, which was acquired by Ariba in November 1999. Earlier in his career, Drew held marketing & technical positions at Neuron Data, News Corporation, Zanza Software and Cambridge Technology Group. Drew holds a BA from Harvard College and an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Stu Phillips
Managing Director of Insight Partners
Stu Phillips is a managing director at Insight Venture Partners. He joined in 2016 with a successful 20 year technology investing track record and almost 20 years’ experience in corporate operating roles. At Insight he serves on the board of directors, or works with DataSift and Ensighten. Prior to Insight, Stu was a general partner at Bay Partners where he was a board member or observer with Bay’s investments in Deis (formerly Engine Yard), Envia Systems, MiMoni, Mulesoft, Vaxart, and AMEC. Prior to their exits, he also managed investments in Covestor (acquired by Interactive Brokers), Eventful (acquired by CBS Local Media), Lending Club (NYSE:LC), Oncomed (NASDAQ: OMED), Zenprise (acquired by Citrix) and Paraccel (acquired by Actina). Earlier in his career, Stu was a founding partner at Ridgelift Ventures and also served as a general partner at US Venture Partners, where he led investments in communications, software and services companies. These included Cacheflow, @Road, Procket Networks, Flyswat, Merlin Networks and Force10 Networks. Before becoming a technology investor, Stu was VP of Central Engineering at Cisco, responsible for the strategy and development of Cisco’s IOS. He previously held leadership positions at Tandem Computers, Logica, and ICL. Stu is a Commercial Pilot and an avid participant in RadioSport (the contesting side of Ham Radio). Stu lives with his wife, Barbara, in Woodside, CA, where the hardest decision is whether to turn left or right when they cycle on the many routes in the area. Stu earned a BS Electronic from Cardiff University in Wales, graduating summa cum laude.
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About Bay Partners, Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Nikhil Sachdev
Managing Director of Insight Partners
Nikhil is the Managing Director of Insight Partners and a Board Observer at MURAL. He is also a Board Member of Apprentice.io.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Linda Yu
Vice President & Investment Director of SoftBank Vision Fund
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About SoftBank Group, SoftBank Vision Fund: SoftBank Vision Fund specializes in growth capital and social impact investments.
Ted Fike
Director, Americas of SoftBank Vision Fund
Ted Fike is an investment director with the SoftBank Investment Advisers based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ted focuses on investments in consumer technologies and real estate. He is a SoftBank board representative for Wag, and Plenty. (A full list of portfolio companies can be found here.) Ted has held a variety of investing and operating roles during his career. Prior to joining SoftBank Investment Advisers in 2017, he led corporate development and strategy initiatives at Airbnb, which had acquired Tilt, where he was CFO and board director. Before Tilt, Ted was a founding principal of CapitalG, Google’s growth equity investment arm. Earlier at Google, Ted was responsible for acquisitions and investments as part of the corporate development team, as well as a number of Google’s largest technology and telecommunications client relationships within its sales organization. Prior to joining Google, Ted worked in strategy and operations at WebMD, in credit investing at Bain Capital, and in strategy consulting at Boston Consulting Group. Ted graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a BS in economics and concentrations in finance, marketing, and management.
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About SoftBank Vision Fund: SoftBank Vision Fund specializes in growth capital and social impact investments.
Jeff Chung
Managing Director of AME Cloud Ventures
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About AME Cloud Ventures: AME Cloud Ventures invests in seed to later-stage tech companies that build infrastructure and value chains around data.
Mayo A. Shattuck
Director, Credit of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Mayo A. Shattuck IV (San Francisco) joined KKR in 2008. He leads investments in energy, power, and utilities across the firm’s credit strategies. Mr. Shattuck currently sits on the board of Fortune Creek Midstream. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Shattuck was with Goldman, Sachs & Co. in the investment banking division in both New York and London. While there, he focused on mergers and financings in the industrials and natural resources group. Mr. Shattuck received a B.A. from Williams College and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Mr. Shattuck serves as a director of the Solid Rock Foundation.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Jamison Ely
Director of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Jamison C. Ely joined KKR in 2004 and is head of the KKR Strategic Investment Program (“KSIP”), a credit focused direct co-investment strategy. Prior to running KSIP, Mr. Ely was part of the KKR Credit investment team for over 10 years, with direct oversight for $2.5 billion of performing and distressed credit positions across public and private markets. Between 2007 and 2008, Mr. Ely lived in London and worked with a small team to expand KKR Credit internationally. Mr. Ely sits on the Board of Directors for Cengage Learning and Preferred Sands LLC. He graduated from Occidental College with a B.A. in Economics.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Doug Tapley
Director, KKR Capital Solutions Group of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Doug Tapley (San Francisco) joined KKR in 2006 and is part of the Capital Solutions Group focusing on private debt origination and syndication for KKR’s credit platform and for MerchCap Solutions. He has overseen credit investments across a broad range of sectors including retail/consumer, healthcare, media, business services, technology, and industrial businesses. Mr. Tapley brings more than thirteen years of investment experience to his position at KKR. Previously Mr. Tapley was a vice president at GE Capital where he underwrote and led debt transactions for sponsored buyouts in the media, communications, and healthcare sectors. Prior to his tenure with GE Capital, Mr. Tapley worked as a management consultant in the telecommunications and technology sectors. Mr. Tapley holds a B.A. from Rice University, an M.B.A. from Yale University, and is a C.F.A. charterholder.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Jeff Van Horn
Managing Director, Credit of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Jeffrey B. Van Horn (San Francisco) joined KKR in 2004. Mr. Van Horn is a Managing Director and the Chief Financial Officer of KKR’s Credit business. Previously, he was the Co-Head of the KKR Global Tax Team and the KKR Global Public Markets Tax Director. Mr. Van Horn is also the Chief Operating Officer, Executive Vice President and Director of Tax of KKR Financial Holdings LLC. He previously served as the Chief Financial Officer of KKR Financial Holdings LLC from May 2006 to November 2010. Before joining KKR, Mr. Van Horn worked in various finance positions, including senior vice president of Investments and Chief Financial Officer of AvalonBay Communities, Inc. and its predecessor, Bay Apartment Communities, Inc., respectively. Prior to that, he was a tax partner with Arthur Andersen LLP serving clients in the real estate, leasing, private equity, and REIT industries. Mr. Van Horn was also a member of Arthur Andersen’s firmwide Partnership and REIT Tax Specialty Teams. He graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Business Administration from California State University, Stanislaus. Mr. Van Horn is also a California licensed Certified Public Accountant.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Daniel McLaughlin
Director of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Daniel McLaughlin (San Francisco) joined KKR in 2009 and is a member of the Client and Partner Group..
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Mariko M. Uyeda
Director, Client and Partner Group of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Mariko M. Uyeda (San Francisco) joined KKR in 2004 and is a member of the Client and Partner Group, and previously she was a member of the fixed income division at KKR. Ms. Uyeda graduated with a B.A. from the University of California, San Diego.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Billy Fisher
Director, Finance of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
William B. Fisher (San Francisco) joined KKR in 2004 and brings more than 30 years of diversified management experience to his position as Chief Investment Operations Officer at KKR. Prior to joining our operations team, Mr. Fisher served as Managing Director at myCFO, Inc., a startup wealth management firm representing more than $20 billion in AUM. Prior to that, he served as President and Chief Executive Office at Furthco, a privately-held company, managing a conglomeration of businesses and investments. He holds a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Arkansas.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
John Reed
Director, Credit of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
John M. Reed (San Francisco) joined KKR in 2008 and is a member of Credit, serving as the Head of Credit Trading. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Reed was a director at Bear Stearns & Co. in their institutional fixed income department. Previously, he was an analyst at BNY Capital Markets in the syndicated loan, private placement and high yield groups, and also worked in the asset strategies group and The Office of Management & Budget of New York City. Mr. Reed received a B.A. in Business Administration and Psychology from the University of South Carolina and a Global Professional M.B.A. from the Fordham University School of Business Administration.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
David Kerko
Director of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Chris Wade
Director, Credit of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Christopher Wade (San Francisco) joined KKR in February 2006 and brings over thirteen years of experience to his role as Director and Divisional Controller of KKR Credit. Previously, Mr. Wade worked at FEI Company and Riverbed Technology in SEC reporting manager and accounting manager roles, respectively. Mr. Wade began his accounting career at Ernst & Young LLP, serving a variety of clients in the technology and investment management industries. Mr. Wade graduated with a B.A. in Accounting with departmental honors from the University of Oregon.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Albert Chan
Director, Finance of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Albert Chan (San Francisco) joined KKR in September 2005 and is the Controller of KKR Financial Holdings LLC.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Scott Cullerton
Managing Director of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Ryan L.G. Wilson
Director, Credit of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Ryan L.G. Wilson (San Francisco) joined KKR in 2006 and is a Director in Credit Portfolio Management Group. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Wilson was with PricewaterhouseCoopers, serving a variety of clients across industries. Mr. Wilson holds a B.A. in Economics with honors from Wilfrid Laurier University and a MAcc in Accounting from the University of Waterloo. He also is a CFA charterholder, Chartered Professional Accountant, and a Chartered Accountant.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Jeff Smith
Director, Business Operations of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Adam Elegant
Director of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Adam Elegant (San Francisco) joined KKR in 2014 and is a member of the KKR Client and Partner Group, focused on working with leading family offices. Mr. Elegant spent 14 years in the securities division at Goldman Sachs in San Francisco and New York selling the firm’s equities products to family offices, hedge funds, RIAs and broker-dealers, among others. Afterwards, he joined Northern Trust in a business development role focused on family offices. Mr. Elegant holds an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Colorado and a B.A. in Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Adam Elegant
Director of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Adam Elegant (San Francisco) joined KKR in 2014 and is a member of the KKR Client and Partner Group, focused on working with leading family offices. Mr. Elegant spent 14 years in the securities division at Goldman Sachs in San Francisco and New York selling the firm’s equities products to family offices, hedge funds, RIAs and broker-dealers, among others. Afterwards, he joined Northern Trust in a business development role focused on family offices. Mr. Elegant holds an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Colorado and a B.A. in Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Dylan Love
Director, Executive Talent of Lightspeed Venture Partners
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About Lightspeed Venture Partners: Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.
Justin Appler
Director of Engineering, Applications of Crunchbase
Justin develops software mostly in JavaScript, often for the web, and sometimes in other languages. The challenges of building products that stand the test of time and effective software teams (from recruiting through to day-to-day engineering process) fascinate him.
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About Crunchbase: Crunchbase provides intelligent prospecting software powered by live company data.
Danielle Ben-Gera
Director of Data Engineering of Crunchbase
Danielle Ben-Gera has been serving as Director of Data Engineering at Crunchbase since September 2018.
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About Crunchbase: Crunchbase provides intelligent prospecting software powered by live company data.
Jishnu Bhattacharjee
Managing Director of Nexus Venture Partners
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About Nexus Venture Partners: Nexus Venture Partners is a venture capital firm established by ex-entrepreneurs in enterprise technology and consumer internet.
Abhishek Sharma
Managing Director of Nexus Venture Partners
Abhishek is passionate about partnering with mission-driven founders and helping them build transformational companies. He is excited about futuristic opportunities in enterprise software. His investments include Sibros, TileDB, AskNicely, Apollo, FingerprintJS, Daloopa, Imagen.ai, Mezi (acquired by American Express), and Clover Health (NASDAQ: CLOV). Abhishek was an entrepreneur and business builder prior to joining Nexus. He co-founded HelloIntern.com, a marketplace for internships. Most recently, he worked at eBay on partnerships with marketing technology startups. Previously, Abhishek worked at the management consulting firm Booz & Company, where he advised wide-ranging companies in the US, India, and the Middle-East. Abhishek holds Masters and Bachelors in Engineering from IIT Bombay and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was co-president of Harvard India Student Group (HISG) and co-chair of the Harvard India Conference.
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About Clover Health, Imagen Technologies, Nexus Venture Partners, Parsley Health, Quolum: Nexus Venture Partners is a venture capital firm established by ex-entrepreneurs in enterprise technology and consumer internet.
Ashley Cravens
Director Of Operations & Head of Platform of Uncork Capital
Ashley is the operational lynchpin of Uncork Capital. She was the firm’s first employee, and helped establish all of its processes and systems. Her contributions and responsibilities touch every aspect of the business. For starters: She manages corporate accounting, developed and maintains the firm’s internal deal flow management system, oversees legal documentation, plans all events and manages the Uncork Platform. She gets a thrill from discovering the most efficient way to get from A to B, but her most treasured role at Uncork is fostering relationships. Ashley loves bringing people together, as seen by the passion she brings to planning our quarterly cocktail hours, partner-hosted dinners, the annual summer party and the Uncork Capital Summit — a 2-day event in which founders of Uncork companies come together to exchange ideas and learn from one another. As Head of Platform, Ashley focuses on providing Uncork portfolio companies the connections and resources necessary to achieve their goals. She finds and vet’s service providers and experts for our founders and stops at nothing until she secures a discount for our portfolio. She connects founders to our broader community, whether that’s a law firm that can handle an IP battle, a venue that can seat 1,000 people in downtown San Francisco, a branding agency that can craft a differentiated, memorable identity, or a recruiting firm that can help a startup fill out its initial team. Prior to joining Uncork, Ashley spent more than a dozen years in the finance industry. She was a marketing director and registered insurance and securities assistant at Rosenbaum Financial in Portland Oregon. Previously she was a licensed broker at Morgan Stanley, where she managed accounts for two vice presidents and was a client relationship manager. She started her career at Smith Barney, where she conducted due diligence on mutual funds and became a specialist in client relations, running marketing campaigns, and special events for elite clients. Ashley graduated from the University of Oregon with a BS in business administration/marketing.
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About Uncork Capital: Uncork Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that focuses on SaaS, consumer, marketplaces, hardware, and new technology startups.
Jason A. Kreuziger
Managing Director of Goldman Sachs
Jason Kreuziger is a member of the Growth Equity Investing Group within the Merchant Banking Division (MBD) at Goldman Sachs. He is responsible for leading the private equity investments of high-growth businesses in the Software, Business Services and Healthcare sectors in North America. Jason joined Goldman Sachs first in 2008 as a member of the Technology, Media and Telecommunications Investment Banking Group, and returned to Goldman Sachs in 2014. He now serves as a Managing Director in the Growth Equity Investment Group. Prior to re-joining the firm, Jason was a member of the private equity investment team at Summit Partners where he focused on investments in the communications technology and software sectors. Before that, he worked as an investment banker at the Royal Bank of Canada and as a management consultant at ZS Associates. Jason is a CFA charterholder, and holds both Series 7 and Series 79 securities licenses. Jason earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 2008, and a BBA with honors degree in (i) Finance, Investment and Banking, and (ii) Information Systems from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 2002. Outside of work, Jason is an outdoors enthusiast, enjoying distance running, triathlons, hiking, cycling, snowboarding, skiing, and sailing. He also enjoys international travel and collecting local currency from countries he visits.
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About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Joe Porter
Managing Director – Tech Investment Banking of Goldman Sachs
Joe Porter is a Managing Director – Tech Investment Banking at Goldman Sach. He was a managing director in the Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) Group and the Merger & Acquisitions Group within the Investment Banking Division (IBD). Before moving to San Francisco and his current role, he worked in the Executive Office in New York City from 2012 to 2013 with the firm’s executive leadership to develop and execute strategic and client initiatives. Earlier in his career, Joe was a member of the Global Consumer Retail Group in IBD from 2007-2012 and a member of the PSI Group from 2005-2007. He joined Goldman Sachs as an analyst in 2005 and was named Managing Director in 2017 Joe earned a BS in Accounting from Brigham Young University in 2005.
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About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Mark Midle
Managing Director of Goldman Sachs
Mark Midle joined Limelight’s Board of Directors in June 2015. Midle is a Vice President in Goldman, Sachs & Co.’s Merchant Banking Division, where he oversees investments in growth stage, technology-driven companies. Before joining Goldman Sachs, Midle spent over a decade investing in technology and technology-enabled services companies while at firms including Bain Capital and The Blackstone Group. Previously, Midle was a consultant at McKinsey & Co., and he began his career in Morgan Stanley & Co.’s Investment Banking Division. Midle has a B.A. from the University of North Carolina and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Mark Winkelman
Senior Director of Goldman Sachs
Mark is an independent Board member. Born in 1946, he is a citizen of the Netherlands and holds a Degree in Economics from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is a trustee and chairman of the Penn Medicine Board. He served as a Management Committee member of Goldman Sachs & Co. from 1988 to 1994, where he is now a Senior Director. Before joining Goldman Sachs & Co. in 1978, he served at the World Bank for four years as a senior investment officer.
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About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
David Weiden
Founding Partner & Managing Director of Khosla Ventures
David is a Founding Partner and Managing Director at Khosla Ventures, where he focuses on Internet software and services. A number of his investments have led to significant exits, including AppNexus (acquired by AT&T), Climate Corporation (acquired by Monsanto), Okta (NASDAQ: OKTA), RingCentral (NYSE: RNG) and Upstart (NASDAQ: UPST). David has also been recognized by Fortune and Forbes as one of the top technology investors. Prior to Khosla Ventures, David spent five years at Tellme Networks as VP of marketing and business development. Using the quantitative decision making framework, RIFLE, the company drove revenue to over $100 million, and was ultimately acquired by Microsoft for more than $700 million. Previously, he led AOL’s communications, community and instant messaging product divisions as they surpassed 50 million users worldwide. In 1995, after being told by his employer Morgan Stanley that email would never be used for business, David jumped at the chance to join Netscape, where he learned many lessons in product management. David’s career began in door to door sales, where one sales pitch led to his new career in technology via McCaw Cellular, now AT&T. David holds a bachelor’s degree magna cum laude with highest honors in organizational behavior and economics from Harvard University.
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About Khosla Ventures: Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on environmentally friendly tech, internet, computing, mobile, and silicon tech.
Sven Strohband
Partner & Managing Director of Khosla Ventures
Sven is a Partner and Managing Director at Khosla Ventures, and led the firm’s investments in Berkshire Grey, GitLab, and Rocket Lab, among others. An engineer at heart, Sven is passionate about technologies that forge new industries and enable novel user experiences. Sven spent six years at Mohr Davidow Ventures where he led technical diligence for the infrastructure IT and sustainability practices. He also worked with the firm’s companies, recruiting technical talent, running product-market fit experiments and crafting fundraising strategies. Previously, Sven was a project manager for the Electronics Research Lab of Volkswagen, where he led technical projects for Volkswagen brands ranging from LED front lighting, electro chromic glass, and driver assistance systems and robotics. Sven also served as lead engineer and project lead for the Stanford racing team’s autonomous car, Stanley, which went on to win the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. Now on display at the Smithsonian Museum, Stanley became the foundation for the Google self-driving car project. He also co-founded AI company Metamind and served as CEO. Metamind is now part of Salesforce and a key component of Salesforce Einstein. Sven sits on the boards of numerous companies, including Berkshire Grey, Fulfil, Openwater, Rocket Lab, Velo3D, Vicarious, Voyage, and Uhnder. He holds a bachelor’s of science degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University, as well as a Ph.D. in mechanics and computation from Stanford. In his spare time, Sven enjoys teaching his kids to code, flying autonomous drones and cycling.
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About Khosla Ventures: Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on environmentally friendly tech, internet, computing, mobile, and silicon tech.
Ted Maguire
Director, Executive Search of Khosla Ventures
Ted Maguire currently works as the Director, Executive Search for Khosla Ventures. He previously worked at Uber as the Executive Search.
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About Khosla Ventures: Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on environmentally friendly tech, internet, computing, mobile, and silicon tech.
Eric Ward
Creative Director of NFX
Born and raised in Lake Tahoe, Eric developed a sense of adventure at an early age. He quickly moved into a creative mindset and followed his passion of filmmaking to Chapman University’s acclaimed Dodge College of Film & Media Arts. He created commercials and creative visuals for multiple tech companies during his collegiate years that generated a high density network in Silicon Valley, leading him to relocate to San Francisco after graduation. Eric’s mission at NFX is to innovate content surrounding the venture capital industry by utilizing high quality film production, design, and animation through a creative approach to strengthen our brand, team, and audience.
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About NFX: NFX operates as a pre-seed and seed stage VC that is transforming how true innovators are funded.
Harris Barton
Founder & Managing Director of H. Barton Asset Management
Harris Barton As the founder and managing director of H. Barton Asset Management, Harris Barton actively manages a $30 million fund that specializes in providing investment capital to up-and-coming VC-backed technology startups. Prior to H. Barton Asset Management, Mr. Barton was a founding partner of HRJ Capital, an investment firm specializing in private equity funds. Mr. Barton became a private equity investor during his football career, where as an All-Pro offensive lineman for the San Francisco 49ers he earned three Super Bowl wins. Today, he brings the same passion, dedication and teamwork to both his financial and philanthropic endeavors. In 2004, Mr. Barton founded Champion Charities with his friend and former NFL teammate Ronnie Lott. Dedicated to eradicating brain cancer and helping those afflicted with the disease, the charity has raised more than $7 million for research and patient care. Embracing his mantra of “always give back,” Mr. Barton also focuses his energy on helping and inspiring disadvantaged youth through motivational speeches, volunteer programs and fundraising events. Mr. Barton holds a BA in Finance from the University of North Carolina.
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About H. Barton Asset Management, H. Barton Co-Invest Fund: H. Barton Asset Management is a VC firm specializing in start-ups and early stage investments.
Dawn Timan
Senior Tax Director / Chief Compliance Officer of Norwest Venture Partners
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About Norwest Venture Partners: Norwest is a global venture capital and growth equity investment firm that specializes in venture and growth equity companies.
Daniel Friedland
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Goldcrest Capital
Daniel Friedland is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Goldcrest Capital.
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About Goldcrest Capital: Goldcrest is a venture capital fund that invests in private technology companies.
Ashkan Marsh
Partner & Director of Research of Cota Capital
Ashkan Marsh joined Cota in 2019 as a Principal, where he focuses on sourcing, evaluating, and monitoring of public investments. Prior to Cota, Ashkan was an Investment Partner at Crimson Investment Partners making private equity investments in founder-led companies to accelerate growth through digital transformation and corporate processes. Prior to CIP, Ashkan was a public equity Investment Analyst at Newbrook Capital, a $1+ billion long/short equity fund. Previously, Ashkan was an Investment Analyst and Investment Associate at Goldman Sachs in private equity at the firm’s Special Situations Group, a $25 billion proprietary investment fund. Ashkan was Founder and CEO of SilverIP Communications, which became the leading gigabit internet service provider in Illinois and exited to private equity. Ashkan received a B.S. in Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is a graduate of Harvard Business School.
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About Cota Capital: Cota Capital is an SEC-registered multi-stage investment firm focused on private and public enterprise technology companies.
Anthony Schiller
Co-Founder and Co-Managing Director of Green Bay Ventures
Led venture investments in Dropbox, Lyft, Spotify, DocuSign, MuleSoft and Xiaomi. Early investor with Kramlich in the world’s largest private nuclear fusion company, Tri Alpha Energy.
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About Green Bay Ventures: Green Bay Ventures (GBV) is a San Francisco based venture capital firm backed by some of the world’s most prominent families.
Richard Kramlich
Co-Founder and Co-Managing Director of Green Bay Ventures
Dick Kramlich began his venture career in 1969 as a General Partner with Arthur Rock and Co. after nine years in general management as Manager of Financial Planning at the Kroger Co. and Investment Management as Executive Vice President at Gardner & Preston Moss Company in Boston. Since co-founding NEA in 1978, he has been involved in eight companies that have grown from start-up or near start-up stage to companies with market value in excess of $1 billion, including Juniper Networks, Ascend Communications (acquired by Lucent), ImmuneX (acquired by Amgen), Macromedia (acquired by Adobe), and Dallas Semiconductor (acquired by Maxim Integrated products). Dick was the first investor to invest in the Ethernet at 3Com with Bob Metcalfe and an early investor with John Simpson in balloon angioplasty at Advanced Cardiovascular Systems (acquired by Eli Lilly) as well as Forethought (acquired by Microsoft), the company that originated PowerPoint. Dick continues to work with start-ups such as Financial Engines, Force10 Networks, MaxiScale, Tabula, Visual Edge, Xoom, and Zhone. He recently joined the board of CITIC Pharmaceuticals in China and is also a director of Silicon Valley Bank. Dick has received four Lifetime Achievement Awards including awards from the National Venture Capital Association (he served as Chairman and President from 1992-93), the University of California- Haas School of Business, the Silicon Valley Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Program, and the Red Herring Magazine Award. He received an MBA from Harvard University and a BS in History from Northwestern University. Dick and his wife, Pamela, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2006. They are noted collectors of Media Art and founded the New Art Trust to foster best practices in the field in 1997. They have four adult offspring and five grandchildren; they enjoy hiking, traveling, tennis and swimming and are currently residing in Shanghai, China where Dick is assisting NEA’s China practice.
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About Green Bay Ventures: Green Bay Ventures (GBV) is a San Francisco based venture capital firm backed by some of the world’s most prominent families.
Ashley Mitchell
Director of Marketing of New Enterprise Associates
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About New Enterprise Associates: New Enterprise Associates is a global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare.
Shanna Hendriks
Director, Portfolio Services – Business Development of New Enterprise Associates
Shanna joined NEA as a Director, Portfolio Services – Business Development in 2014. She focuses on communications and marketing support for the portfolio which includes supporting the PR needs of early-stage companies, acting as a resource to later-stage companies, and developing educational programs and events at NEA for portfolio companies of all levels of growth. She also supports the portfolio through business development and executive briefings. Shanna brings more than eight years of PR agency work at some of the leading PR agencies in the Bay Area to her role with NEA. She was one of the first hires at LaunchSquad where she learned the ropes of emerging tech PR. She then worked with a boutique firm where she represented some of the most well-known winter sport brands doing consumer PR. Realizing that she missed crafting the story that has become so important for technology companies, she went on to join Hill & Knowlton’s tech practice working with Fortune 500 companies such as Qualcomm, HP, and Yahoo!. Shanna then transitioned in-house to communications at Shutterfly working on corporate communications and the company’s photobooks and share site products. In 2012, Shanna joined Tesla Motors where she among other things, launched Model S, the Supercharger network, and provided comms support to the company’s retail rollout. Shanna moved to the Bay Area from Canada in 2004. Prior to that move, Shanna worked in PR at Ottawa’s famous Fairmont Chateau Laurier. She attended Algonquin College for Public Relations in Ottawa, Ontario.
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About New Enterprise Associates: New Enterprise Associates is a global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare.
Philipp Stauffer
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Fyrfly Venture Partners
Philipp Stauffer is a co-founder and managing director at Fyrfly Venture Partners.
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About Containn, Fyrfly Venture Partners, Gmelius, rready: Fyrfly Venture Partners is a venture capital firm with a focus on data and intelligence.
Esther Tricoche
Director of Investments of Kapor Capital
Esther Tricoche is an Associate Partner on NewSchools’ Tools & Services team. Prior to joining NewSchools Venture Fund, Esther was a founding team member, Program Manager and Acting Vice President at the Laura & John Arnold Foundation, where she led the Foundation’s education team and directed over $130 million in grants to sustainable, scalable, and transformative initiatives in K-12 Public Education. Prior to that, Esther worked as a policy researcher for a Fortune 500 company focusing on international human rights and corporate sustainable development. She also served as a cultural affairs policy researcher through a partnership with the Houston Mayor’s Office and is a former member of a Rice University research team that focused on memory and cognition in relation to learning. As an inaugural Pahara Institute NextGen Fellow, Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans National Scholar, and community volunteer, Esther brings deep passion to the NewSchools Venture Fund to transform the United States’ public education system. Esther holds a degree in Cognitive Science from Rice University, with a concentration in Neuroscience.
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About Kapor Capital, National Immigration Forum: Kapor Capital is an investment firm that invests in early-stage tech-enabled startups.
Andrew Nakahata
Managing Director and Regional Head of Public Finance West Region of UBS
Andy Nakahata is a Managing Director and Regional Head of Public Finance, West Region for UBS Financial Services Inc. Andy has 25 years of public finance experience across several firms and roles in the municipal bond industry. Andy has assisted clients in executing a range of financing products and structures – fixed rate bonds, floating rate bonds, current interest and capital appreciation bonds, floating rate bonds, TRANs, BANs and commercial paper. Andy has worked across a wide variety of credits as his clients have included state and local governments, higher education institutions, healthcare institutions, public utilities and 501(c)3 organizations. Andy serves on the Board of Directors of Asian Americans in Public Finance and the Marin Country Day School. He holds a master’s degree in public and private management (MPPM) from the Yale School of Management and a B.A. degree from Wesleyan University.
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About UBS: UBS is a global financial services company that engages in the provision of financial management solutions.
Deepak Jeevankumar
Managing Director of Dell Technologies Capital
Deepak JeevanKumar is Managing Director at Dell Technologies Capital, where he has investments in cybersecurity. Deepak’s responsibilities include sourcing, leading and managing investments across a wide-spectrum of security technologies and solutions. Prior to joining Dell Technologies, Deepak spent nearly 7 years at General Catalyst where he helped build the firm‘s west-coast presence and was closely involved in Push Computing (acquired by MobileIron), Altiscale (acquired by SAP), Illumio, Menlo Security, Anomali (FKA ThreatStream), Minio and RiskRecon investments. Deepak is a supercomputer designer turned venture capitalist, with 15 years of technology and investment experience. He gained his engineering expertise at Sun Microsystems where he started as a sales engineer and ended-up as a lead supercomputing architect. He was also an intern at the Yale Investments Office. He holds a B. Eng. from the National University of Singapore, an S.M. from the Singapore-MIT Alliance and an MBA from Yale School of Management. Deepak is based in Palo Alto, California.
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About Dell Technologies Capital: Dell Technologies Capital is a VC arm of Dell Technologies that invests in enterprise and cloud infrastructure.
Raman Khanna
Managing Director of Dell Technologies Capital
Raman Khanna is The Managing Director, Dell Technologies Capital.
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About Dell Technologies Capital, Onset: Dell Technologies Capital is a VC arm of Dell Technologies that invests in enterprise and cloud infrastructure.
Tyler Jewell
Managing Director of Dell Technologies Capital
Tyler is Managing Director at Dell Technologies Capital. He previously founded Codenvy and was a partner with Toba Capital managing investments in middleware and application development. He sits on the board of WSO2, Sauce Labs, ShiftMobility and eXo Platform. He has investments in ZeroTurnaround, InfoQ, SourceGraph, and AppHarbor and is an advisor for SD Elements. He is the author of three books on Java, including OReilly’s Java Web Services.
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About Dell Technologies Capital: Dell Technologies Capital is a VC arm of Dell Technologies that invests in enterprise and cloud infrastructure.
Kittu Kolluri
Co-founder and Managing Director of Neotribe Ventures
Kittu Kolluri is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at Neotribe Ventures.
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About Neotribe Ventures: Neotribe Ventures is an early stage-venture capital firm which invests in breakthrough technologies that stretch the imagination.
Aditya Singh
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Neotribe Ventures
Adit is a hands-on early stage company builder having helped build three startups with an operating career spanning 15 years before entering venture capital. From 2013 to 2017, he led the b2b/enterprise practice at Foundation Capital as a Partner investing across the stack from enterprise applications, cloud infrastructure, analytics and cybersecurity. Adit graduated from University of Illinois (BS/MS in Computer Engineering) and from the University of Chicago (MBA). He started his career as an engineer at Growth Networks (a NEA/Lightspeed company) which was acquired by Cisco for $355m. At Cisco, he led the datacenter infrastructure team as a senior technical leader and delivered several products (converged servers, switches and edge routers) for data center infrastructure. He co-founded a networking appliance company, Bitsplay Systems that streamed video from data centers, out of the EIR program at Foundation Capital. In 2008, he joined Enphase Energy (networked solar microinverters), a Series A startup as their first product manager through IPO on the NASDAQ in 2012. When Enphase went public, Adit was Senior Director of Product Management and responsible for the main microinverter business. He is extremely connected in the the deeply technical circles of silicon valley and has the reputation of building companies from the bottom up by working hand in hand with founders.
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About Bloomreach, Cockroach Labs, Neotribe Ventures, Phantom: Neotribe Ventures is an early stage-venture capital firm which invests in breakthrough technologies that stretch the imagination.
Simon Wu
Investment Director of Cathay Innovation
Simon Wu is an Investment Director at Cathay Innovation, a global venture capital firm investing across North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Based in San Francisco, he focuses on software, fintech, and consumer investments. Prior to joining Cathay Innovation, Simon spent almost four years at VMware in the Strategy & Corporate Development team which was responsible for leading acquisitions, investments, and strategy. As a Manager, he was involved in numerous transactions focusing on a number of enterprise software sectors. Before joining VMware, he was at UBS in the investment banking division as part of the technology, media, and telecommunications group. During his time at UBS, Simon advised on equity and debt capital raises, corporate strategy, and M&A for companies in the technology sector. Simon holds both a B.S. in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley and a B.A. in Operations Research and Management Science from University of California, Berkeley.
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About Cathay Innovation: Cathay Innovation is a global multi-stage venture capital firm investing in startups impacting the world.
William McGlashan
Managing Director of TPG Growth
Bill is a founding Partner of TPG Growth, the growth equity and smaller buyout investment platform of TPG, the global private investment firm. With more than $2 billion under management, TPG Growth targets investments in technology, life sciences, renewables and consumer companies utilizing growth equity, public equity and leveraged buyout structures. Prior to joining TPG in 2004, Bill was the Chairman and CEO of Critical Path (NASDAQ: CPTH). He joined Critical Path in April of 2001 to undertake a major financial and operational restructuring of the company. Previously, he co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of Vectis Group, a venture corporation that capitalized and built companies in emerging markets, in partnership with leading U.S. technology businesses. Bill also co-founded and served as President of Pharmanex Inc., a leading phyto-pharmaceutical and dietary supplement company with annual sales of approximately $500 million in 20 countries and significant operations in the People’s Republic of China. The company was sold to NSE (NYSE: NUS) in 1999. Prior to Pharmanex, he was a senior associate with Bain Capital and Information Partners. Bill earned a BA with honors from Yale University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is a member of Young Presidents’ Organization in the San Francisco Barbary Coast chapter, and serves on the Advisory Council for the Yale School of Management as well as the Boards of XOJet, David’s Bridal, AgraQuest, SuccessFactors, Elevance, the Bay Area Discovery Museum and Backroads.
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About TPG Growth: TPG Growth specializes in growth equity and middle-market buyout opportunities.
Fred Paulenich
Partner, Managing Director -Human Capital Partner of TPG Growth
Mr. Paulenich is a Human Capital Partner based in San Francisco. He is responsible for actively leading a highly collaborative process with the investment and operating professionals and the portfolio companies to help evaluate, build and improve the key human capital elements required for profitable growth. Prior to TPG, he was Senior Vice President, Human Resources for Walmart’s high growth, $10B global eCommerce business. He was one of the original and key leaders involved in architecting this business unit which develops strategies, platforms and applications that combine the latest in online innovation with physical stores to create a unique, seamless shopping experience for customers. He also served as Senior Vice President, Human Resources for Levi Strauss & Co., a leading global apparel company with over $4B in sales in more than 110 countries. He was an integral part of the leadership team credited with restoring the company’s financial strength, restructuring its competitiveness across all business dimensions and revitalizing the brand around the world. He began his career at PepsiCo where he held a series of increasingly senior human resources positions over 15 years, culminating in his assignment as Vice President, Human Resources for Pepsi-Cola North America. In that role, he led a complete redefinition and integration of the go-to-market process and organizational structure post the spin off and IPO of the company-owned bottling operations.
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About TPG Growth: TPG Growth specializes in growth equity and middle-market buyout opportunities.
John Helm
Partner and Managing Director of RET Ventures
John Helm is the founder and a current Partner at the proptech-focused VC firm RET Ventures. Prior to founding RET Ventures in 2017, John was a Venture Partner with DN Capital in Munich, Germany. Before that, John ran and successfully exited two venture-backed real estate tech startups, was CFO of Marcus & Millichap, and a consultant at McKinsey & Company. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. You can find John on his skis or mountain biking around Park City or—his favorite thing—spending time with his wife, son, and daughter.
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About RET Ventures: RET Ventures is an industry backed early-stage VC helping build the real estate industry’s cutting edge technology providers.
Christopher Yip
Partner and Managing Director of RET Ventures
Christopher Yip currently serves as Partner at the proptech-focused VC firm RET Ventures. Prior to RET, Christopher spent twelve years at the global private equity firm TPG, where he led growth investments in tech-enabled companies and partnered closely with CEOs and entrepreneurs. He began his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Company. Christopher has an MBA from the Stanford GSB, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, as well as an AB in Economics and an SM in Computer Science from Harvard University. You can find Christopher flying between Park City and San Francisco, trailing the RET team on the snow, or driving anything with four wheels.
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About RET Ventures: RET Ventures is an industry backed early-stage VC helping build the real estate industry’s cutting edge technology providers.
Ambar Bhattacharyya
Managing Director of Maverick Ventures
Ambar Bhattacharyya currently works as the Managing Director for Maverick Capital. He previously worked at Collective Medical as the Series A Investor and Board Observer.
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About Artemis Health, Centivo, Cityblock Health, Hims & Hers, Maverick Ventures: Maverick Ventures is a registered investment advisor managing private investment funds for qualified investors.
Prateesh Maheshwari
Managing Director of Maverick Ventures
Prateesh Maheshwari serves as a Managing Director at Maverick Capital.
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About Maverick Ventures: Maverick Ventures is a registered investment advisor managing private investment funds for qualified investors.
Mitchell Kertzman
Managing Director of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Mitchell Kertzman is a Managing Director at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. He has over 30 years of experience as a CEO of public and private software companies. Most recently, Mitchell was Chairman and CEO of Liberate Technologies, a provider of platform software for the delivery of digital services by cable television companies. Before joining Liberate, he was chairman of the board and CEO of Sybase, Inc. Mitchell was founder and CEO of Powersoft, which merged with Sybase in February 1995. A former programmer, Mitchell founded Powersoft in 1974 as Computer Solutions. He renamed the company and became a member of the Hummer Winblad family in 1991 when Hummer Winblad invested in the company, which became the leading provider of client-server development tools with its flagship product, PowerBuilder. The merger with Sybase in 1995 was, at the time, the most valuable in the history of the software industry. Mitchell served as President of the Massachusetts Software Council from 1994 to 1996 and was 1990 chairman of the American Electronics Association. He is founder and former chairman of the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth (MassINC), a think tank focused on issues related to the standard of living and quality of life of America’s middle class. He served on the New York State Commission on Industrial Competitiveness and chaired its task force on industrial policy. Mitchell was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He currently sits on the Boards of AspireIQ, Blissfully, 6connect and Symbium.
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About 6connect, Blissfully, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, MassINC: Hummer Winblad Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage enterprise software companies.
Sunil Kurkure
Managing Director of Intel Capital
Sunil is a Managing Director at Intel Capital driving early-venture and growth-equity investments in the Software and Security Sector across cloud infrastructure, big data, security and next-generation enterprise applications. He is actively involved with Intel Capital portfolio companies Kaltura, Eclypsium, Synack, SecurityScorecard, Vectra Networks, Fortanix, Lightbend, Preempt Security, Catalytic, Capsul8 and ZeroFox. Prior to joining Intel Capital, Sunil worked as an enterprise-focused venture capitalist at Mirador Capital, Greenspring Associates and Charter Ventures; and product strategy in the Client Computing Group at Intel. Sunil has held board or advisory roles at Ellie Mae (NYSE: ELLI), Deem, Sumo Logic, Snowflake Computing, Xensource (NASDAQ: CTXS), Clear Standards (NYSE: SAP), Splunk (NASDAQ: SPLK), DATAllegro (NASDAQ: MSFT), Solidcore (NASDAQ: INTC), TeleNav (NASDAQ: TNAV), Winery Exchange, and SysteamUS. Previously, Sunil spent several years at Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse in M&A and equity financing, working with leading technology companies including Cisco, Yahoo, HP, Oracle, and Applied Materials among others. Sunil holds a BS in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. Sunil is actively involved in several youth sports organizations including AYSO and NJB, and previously served as a regional board member of BUILD, an organization that uses entrepreneurship to help children in under-resourced communities.
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About Intel Capital: Intel Capital invests in innovative startups targeting cloud and AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, and other disruptive technologies.
Mark Lydon
Managing Director of Intel Capital
Mark Lydon is a Managing Director at Intel Capital and leads investments in the IOT, Edge Computing and Autonomy sectors. Mark joined Intel Capital in 2000 and brings over 30 years of experience in venture capital investing, business development, engineering and operations spanning both high tech startups and Fortune 100 companies. Prior to Intel Capital, Mark held a variety of management positions in engineering, business development, sales and marketing at Dialogic Corporation, helping the company grow from a startup to a worldwide leader in telecommunications technology. Mark began his career as an engineer at IBM, where he contributed to the development of the industry’s first integration of computer systems and telecom private branch exchanges. Mark invested in and managed exits for a number of companies including XEVO (acquired by Lear), Fibocom (IPO on SHE), Vocera Communications (IPO on NYSE), Rapid Bridge (acquired by Qualcomm), Skyhook Wireless (acquired by Liberty Media), Bocom (acquired by BGTC), Continuous Computing Corporation (acquired by Radisys Corporation), China ITS (IPO on HKSE), IPTego (acquired by Acme Packets), Crossbeam (acquired by Blue Coat Systems) and Telera (acquired by Alcatel). Mark has a BS in Electrical Engineering from California Polytechnic University.
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About Intel Capital: Intel Capital invests in innovative startups targeting cloud and AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, and other disruptive technologies.
Trina Van Pelt
Vice President, Senior Managing Director of Intel Capital
Trina Van Pelt is Vice President & Senior Managing Director of Intel Capital; Vice Chair of its Investment Committee; and Chair of its diversity & inclusion investing initiative. She focuses on investments in artificial intelligence, autonomous things, mobility management, sports technology, and data centric business models. Trina currently serves on multiple, early to growth stage, portfolio company boards (Cognitive Scale, GoodData, Mighty Networks, Moovit, Paxata). In February 2019, she was named to the Power 200 list of the world’s most influential data economy leaders. She is a sought out advisor to Intel’s executive team on transformational growth strategies for Intel’s data centric businesses. Van Pelt has more than 23 years of experience in technology investments, M&A, strategic planning and business development. She has led more than 85 technology acquisitions and investments worth >$50B over the course of her career, spanning the computing, communications, software, IoT and mobile industry segments. She has built, developed, led, inspired and managed large teams of investors and strategic business development professionals negotiating equity and complex buy-and sell-side transactions and partnerships. Before joining Intel in 2004, Van Pelt was a director of corporate development at CNET Networks and an investment associate at TA Associates. She began her career in investment banking at Lehman Brothers and Ernst & Young’s financial advisory services group. She holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Michigan and earned a master’s degree in management from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.
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About Intel Capital: Intel Capital invests in innovative startups targeting cloud and AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, and other disruptive technologies.
Ranjeet Alexis
Investment Director, United States of Intel Capital
Ranjeet’s current focus is in in the health, genomics and life sciences sector to identify disruptions through technology. He joined Intel Capital in 2000. He started his investment career with a successful investment Sirf Technologies in 2000 and since has invested in perceptual computing, (emotion recognition, gesture recognition and eyetracking), VR, AR, 3D and robotics companies in silicon, systems and software. Ranjeet currently serves as a member or observer on the board of Savioke, Occipital, Worldviz and Witricity. He has invested and managed exits including Sirf Technologies (IPO), Tobii ( IPO), Omek (acquired by Intel) Mobile 365 (acquired by Sybase), Sychip (acquired by Murata), Sasken (IPO), Jamdat (IPO), Techfaith (IPO), Azure (acquired by Subex), Integrant (acquired by Analog devices) and LGC (acquired by Andrews) to name a few. Prior to Intel Capital, he spent several years in senior operating roles at Intel. Ranjeet led the team that designed and manufactured the earliest non-volatile memory solutions for the cellular market. In his subsequent strategic role he launched the stacking memory solution for mobile that evolved into a $1 billion revenue business for Intel. He has authored over 10 patents covering various solutions for mobile. He is a winner of the Lewis W. award for technical excellence at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in 1993. Ranjeet has Masters in Electrical Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
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About Intel Capital: Intel Capital invests in innovative startups targeting cloud and AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, and other disruptive technologies.
Arun Chetty
Managing Director of Intel Capital
Arun Chetty has been with Intel Capital since 2004 and focuses on investments in the wireless ecosystem covering the latest in 5G and wireless connectivity technologies, in Edge Compute/Intelligence, Sensors, HMI, Enterprise AI and conversational AI platforms, Gaming/Esports, and AR/VR in consumer and enterprise. Arun has led investments in Bluestacks, Avaamo, NextInput, Mindmeld, OnScale, Axonne, Telink Semiconductor, Espressif, Delta ID, AdHawk Microsystems, Babble Labs, VeriSilicon, Aicent, mFoundry, Insyde Software, LANDesk, and many others during his tenure with Intel Capital. Some of his successful exits include VeriSilicon (IPO), Telink (M&A), Espressif (IPO), Babble Labs (M&A), Mindmeld (M&A), Delta ID (M&A), Aicent (M&A), LANDesk (M&A), LGC Wireless (M&A), Circle Lending (M&A), and many others. Prior to Intel Capital, Arun spent several years as M&A Director at Intel, leading and executing over 15 M&A deals, and as a Controller in Intel’s Finance organization. Arun also worked as an engineer in R&D groups at GE, DuPont, and Brookhaven National Labs after his B.S.E. from Princeton and M.S. from MIT. Arun received an MBA from the University of Michigan.
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About Intel Capital: Intel Capital invests in innovative startups targeting cloud and AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, and other disruptive technologies.
Sean Doyle
Managing Director of Intel Capital
Sean is a Director in Intel Capital focused on manufacturing, semiconductor and supply chain investments for Intel’s core business and on new emerging silicon-related “adjacency” opportunities. From 1997 to 2001 he was a Sr. Treasury Manager responsible for financial due diligence and structuring of over 50 investments across a variety of sectors including media, content, enterprise computing and software. During this time period Sean also provided financial oversight of Intel 64 Fund operations and supported merger and acquisition transactions. In 2001 Sean joined Intel Capital as Sector Director, Technology and Manufacturing, to lead a team of investment managers supporting Intel’s global technology development and manufacturing operations. Notable investments by Sean’s team included ALIS, Clearshape, Epichem, Epion, Lotes, TriChem Labs and Xtreme Technologies. Sean’s transactional experience at Intel Capital ranges from seed stage venture financings to public company debt and equity investments with business development agreements worldwide. He has served as a lead investment manager on some of Intel Capital’s largest or most notable investments worldwide including ASM International, ASM Lithography, Elpida Memory, Ion Microfabrication Systems, Nikon Corporation, Pacific Biosciences, Photronics and Micron Corporation. Sean serves as board observer at several Intel Capital portfolio companies. Prior to Intel Capital, Sean worked in corporate finance for the investment bank Laidlaw Equities and was a marketing manager at Oracle Corporation. Sean holds a BA from UC Berkeley and an MBA from UCLA.
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About Intel Capital: Intel Capital invests in innovative startups targeting cloud and AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, and other disruptive technologies.
Andrew Fligel
Senior Managing Director of Intel Capital
Andy is a Senior Managing Director and a voting member of Intel Capital’s investment committee. Andy focuses on investments in enterprise software, cloud and datacenter technologies driving digital transformation. He currently serves as a Board Member of ScienceLogic and Maana and acts as a Board Observer of Mirantis and Immuta. Andy’s prior investments include Virtustream (acquired by EMC), LogMeIn (NASDAQ: LOGM), Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), Spot.io (acquired by NetApp), CloudGenix (acquired by Palo Alto Networks), CoreOS (acquired by Red Hat), Prelert (acquired by Elastic), Joyent (acquired by Samsung), DynamicOps (acquired by VMware), JBoss (acquired by Red Hat), Managed Objects (acquired by Novell) among others. Prior to Intel Capital, Andy worked in the investment banking group at Robinson-Humphrey. Andy has an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a B.S. in Commerce and a minor in mathematics from the University of Virginia, where he was an Echols Scholar.
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About Intel Capital: Intel Capital invests in innovative startups targeting cloud and AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, and other disruptive technologies.
Dave Johnson
Managing Director of Intel Capital
Dave joined Intel Capital in 2003, following 10 years in Intel’s Finance and Treasury organization where he held financial management positions supporting Intel’s microprocessor and manufacturing groups and was a founding member of Intel’s Treasury M&A group where he completed over a dozen acquisitions. Joining Intel Capital’s investment team in 2003, Dave invested in WiMAX, LTE, Connectivity, RF, wireless services / spectrum companies before joining the Edge Intelligence, 5G and Autonomous Systems group in 2015 where he is a Managing Director. Dave’s current investment focus areas include industrial systems, computer vision, robotics and autonomy, 5G and network infrastructure. Dave serves as a board member for Foghorn and K4Connect, and board observer for Keyssa. He is on the investment team for Matroid, Landing.ai, Cloudleaf and Cellwize. Dave was named #2 on Global Corporate Venturing’s Emerging Leader list for 2020. Before joining Intel, Dave held management positions with Procter and Gamble and Chevron Corporation. Dave has an MBA from Cornell University and a BA from Vanderbilt University.
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About Intel Capital: Intel Capital invests in innovative startups targeting cloud and AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, and other disruptive technologies.
Don Faria
Investment Director of Intel Capital
Don Faria is an Investment Director for Intel Capital, where he manages investments for Intel’s (formerly Altera) FPGA technology, products and solutions. Don also is responsible for a variety of other Intel Capital portfolio companies, primary in Semiconductor, Communications, and Data Center end markets. Currently, He serves as a board observer for AnDapt, Bigstream, Element AI, Envoix, Falcon Computing, Inrix, Jariet, Lumita, Mocana, Nexant, rENIAC, Swarm64, Qnovo, and Zumigo. Don’s recent exit success include Luxtera (acquired by Cisco) and eBrisk (acquired by Intel). Don also led the acquisition of eASIC by Intel. Don joined Intel Capital in 2015 as part of Intel’s acquisition of Altera Corporation. He has 38 years of experience in the semiconductor and EDA industries, with 8 years in Equity and M&A. He is considered one of the pioneers of the FPGA industry. Previous to Intel Capital, Don has held senior and executive level management positions at Altera, Synopsys, QuickLogic, and Chip Express, where he was responsible for leading business units, corporate strategy, M&A and equity investments, as well as marketing and technical support functions. Don also is an Advisor for SK Telecom Innopartners incubator program.
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About Intel Capital: Intel Capital invests in innovative startups targeting cloud and AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, and other disruptive technologies.
Tammi Smorynski
Managing Director of Intel Capital
Tammi is a Managing Director in Intel Capital and since 2005 has been focused on emerging technologies, see General Interest. Tammi is a board member of Embodied, Savioke, and Silkroad and holds various board observer seats including Cubeworks, CY Vision, and OnDot. From 2000-2005, Tammi was a Treasury Manager supporting Intel Capital and responsible for financial due diligence and structuring of over 70 investments across a variety of sectors including wireless, sensors/RFID and software. Prior to Intel Capital, Tammi was with J.P. Morgan & Co., focused on leveraged buyout transactions and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to that, she was an Audit Officer at J.P. Morgan & Co. covering a diverse set of investment banking operations from derivatives trading to global custody. She passed the CPA Exam in 1991. Tammi earned an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA and a bachelor’s degree in Accounting/International Management from Georgetown University.
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About Intel Capital: Intel Capital invests in innovative startups targeting cloud and AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, and other disruptive technologies.
Shahi Ghanem
Managing Director of WI Harper Group
Shahi Ghanem is a technology industry veteran, serial entrepreneur, and venture capital investor and advisor. Prior to joining BitTorrent, Shahi served as the president and CEO of STL, a digital media company that helps Fortune 500 companies manage, distribute and measure digital assets. He has also held similar roles at EmpowHER, a Health Media Company dedicated to female health and wellness, and Brickfish, an Internet advertising and social media company that delivers social media campaigns and metrics to clients in the fashion, sports, electronics and consumer products industries. Most notably, Shahi previously served as president of DivX, Inc., one of the world’s leading developers of video compression, digital rights management and media language technologies. During his tenure he helped grow the company from a pre-revenue startup into a profitable, multi-national, public company. Shahi was educated at Cal State Long Beach and the University of California at Irvine, where he majored in both economics and pre-med.
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About WI Harper Group: WI Harper Group is a venture capital firm that focuses on early and expansion investments in Mainland China, Taiwan and Silicon Valley.
Jimmy Lu
Managing Director of WI Harper Group
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About WI Harper Group: WI Harper Group is a venture capital firm that focuses on early and expansion investments in Mainland China, Taiwan and Silicon Valley.
Charles Wu
Managing Director of WI Harper Group
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About WI Harper Group: WI Harper Group is a venture capital firm that focuses on early and expansion investments in Mainland China, Taiwan and Silicon Valley.
Derrick Hsiang
Director of WI Harper Group
Derrick Hsiang focuses on identifying, evaluating, investing and supporting WI Harper’s investments in the software & services, mobile, internet and digital media space. Derrick is actively involved with numerous portfolio companies including Quixey, a leading B2B functional search engine tailored for apps, Maxthon, the world’s #5 internet browser, and Innovation Works, a leading business creation platform led by Dr. Kai-Fu Lee. Derrick gained valuable operating experience at Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, the world’s largest IC packaging and test manufacturer, where he managed regional production and focused on business development initiatives. Prior to ASE, Derrick was at Merrill Lynch’s Private Banking and Investment Group.
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About Merrill Lynch, WI Harper Group: WI Harper Group is a venture capital firm that focuses on early and expansion investments in Mainland China, Taiwan and Silicon Valley.
Adam Nelson
Managing Director of FirstMark
Adam is a Partner at Social Capital where he focuses on early stage venture investing in enterprise SaaS and marketplaces. He brings experience in building and executing go-to-market strategies in both SMB and Enterprise, most recently at Dropbox. Prior to that, Adam was a Private Equity investor at Lindsay Goldberg, an investment firm in New York.
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About FirstMark: FirstMark Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with exceptional entrepreneurs.
Santiago Corredoira-Jack
US Managing Director of Speedinvest
Santiago is a seasoned European entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, where he co-founded 10darts, a communications platform as-a-sevice (CPaaS), and Onpublico, a citizen journalism community leader in local news in the US hispanic market. His experience in startups and network in the Valley made the Spanish Government choose him to set up their startups incubator in San Francisco. Prior to that, Santiago joined the most successful Spanish startup created in the 2000’s, Lanetro – Zed, taking it from scratch to a pre-IPO status within 9 years. Santiago was one of the four C-class team members that took it from a non-revenue status to generating $500m in yearly revenue, managing 150m users worldwide and having operations in 14 countries. In this company, he set up and launched several new business divisions, including the Global Business Development and the Strategic Partnerships and Alliances, managed the operations in the UK, the largest market, and headed the legal department. Santiago graduated from law school in Madrid and holds 2 masters degrees from the University of London (LLM) and the IESE Business School (Global Executive MBA). He has enjoyed pitching top-notch Sand Hill Road VCs (including Sequoia, Greylock and Andreessen Horowitz) and has also suffered the vertigo of not having enough cash for the payroll 2 weeks before it is due. A strategic thinker and thoroughly data-driven, Santiago is resilient, very curious, an outstanding communicator, skilled negotiator and trusted advisor. He has been collaborating with Students Rising Above for the last 5 years, where he mentors high school seniors with challenging social conditions and outstanding personal and academic potential. Coming from a large family with 7 siblings, the usual startup chaos makes him feel truly at home and comprehensively challenged.
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About Onpublico, Speedinvest: Speedinvest is a venture capital fund investing in pre-seed, seed, and early-stage tech startups.
Rob Ward
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Meritech Capital Partners
Rob co-founded Meritech in 1999. His current areas of investment interest include Big Data, cloud computing, Saas, security and online consumer services. Rob led Meritech’s successful investments in Acclarent (JNJ), BigFix (IBM), Cornerstone OnDemand (CSOD), Counterpane (BT), Fortinet (FTNT), Greenplum (EMC), Imperva (IMPV), Netezza (IBM), NetSuite (N), PopCap Games (ERTS), Quigo (AOL), Reliant (SLTM) and Zipcar (ZIP). Prior to Meritech, Rob was a principal in the Private Equity Group at Montgomery Securities, and worked in the New York and San Francisco Corporate Finance Departments at Smith Barney.
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About Eastside College Preparatory School, Meritech Capital Partners: Meritech Capital provides late-stage venture capital to technology companies.
Nan Li
Managing Director of Obvious Ventures
Investor, Board Observer, Advisor at Zymergen, Dexterity, Recursion & Octave. Managing Director at Obvious Ventures.
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About Obvious Ventures, Octave, Stanford University: Obvious Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in the early and growth stages.
Vishal Vasishth
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Obvious Ventures
Vishal is the Managing Director of Obvious Ventures. Board Observer at Tomorrow Health, Galileo & Corvus Insurance.
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About Devoted Health, Good Eggs, Myro, Obvious Ventures, The Aspen Institute: Obvious Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in the early and growth stages.
James Joaquin
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Obvious Ventures
James has over twenty-five years of experience building and leading technology companies from early stage company ideation to global market leadership. He helped create entirely new categories such as online photography, web-based calendaring and the Personal Digital Assistant. James is the former CEO of Ofoto, Xoom, and Xmarks. James is the co-founder of Obvious Ventures, investing in #worldpositive startups that combine profit and purpose.
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About Breezeworks, Obvious Ventures: Obvious Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in the early and growth stages.
Andrew Beebe
Managing Director of Obvious Ventures
Managing Director at Obvious Ventures. Board Observer at AMPLY Power, Inc, RenoRun & Lyric.
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About Elemental Excelerator, Obvious Ventures: Obvious Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in the early and growth stages.
Brian Nicholson
Managing Director of Sonoma Brands
Brian joined Sonoma Brands in 2018 as a Principal, bringing eight years of experience as a growth investor in leading eCommerce, Digital Media and Direct-to-Consumer businesses. At Sonoma Brands, Brian is focused on sourcing, executing and leading growth-stage investments in emerging consumer brands. Prior to joining Sonoma Brian spent over 5 years at Stripes Group, a leading growth equity firm in New York City, where he directly sourced and led growth investments in companies including Refinery29, Reformation, The Black Tux and Pond5. With these investments, Brian served as a Board Director or Observer and supported management in areas such as teambuilding, business development and strategic planning. Additionally, Brian has helped lead growth investments in disruptive consumer brands like Daily Harvest and ClassPass. Previously, Brian founded a direct-to-consumer apparel brand and spent several years in the Technology Investment Banking Group at JMP Securities in San Francisco. Brian received a B.A. (Honors) from Brown University.
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About Sonoma Brands: Sonoma Brands Capital is a private equity firm focused on the growth sectors of the consumer economy.
Benjamin Black
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Akkadian Ventures
Benjamin Black is the Co-founder & Chief Investment Officer of Akkadian Ventures, LLC. An eleven-year veteran of the private equity space, Ben co-founded Akkadian with Peter Smith, to specialize in offering early liquidity to entrepreneurs, early employees, and investors in successful private companies. In 2011, Ben co-founded, with Chris Tarr, the Momentum Index (www.momentumindex.com) which tracks the top performing private venture-backed companies. With the understanding that it often takes more than ten years for entrepreneurs to achieve liquidity, Akkadian Ventures created unique deal structures for entrepreneurs and employees to generate liquidity and diversify their risk by selling or leveraging private stock. Focusing exclusively on purchasing small stakes in successful growing companies, Akkadian helps innovators manage risk and reap financial reward during that hard climb to the top. Among many, Ben has managed notable investments in RocketFuel, Splunk, DocuSign, Lithium Technologies, Cloudmark, Ooyala, Citizenhawk, The Villa, Automattic and Telephia. Ben co-founded New Cycle Capital with Josh Becker to bring socially responsible investing to sectors like clean energy and social finance with angel investments in Renewable Funding and Opower. He spent nearly four years at Seattle venture capital firm Maveron, focusing on consumer businesses such as Allconnect (Inc. 500 winner). Prior to Maveron, he spent 3 years at private equity firm Rosewood Capital where he focused on branded consumer products and services, including Under Armour. As an entrepreneur, Ben was part of the founding team at Harris Interactive, which was a pioneer in Internet-based market research. During Ben’s tenure, the company completed a successful IPO and generated $200M in revenue. Ben received his undergraduate degree at Cornell University and his JD at the Cornell School of Law. He is the author of a book on American Politics titled ‘The Politics of American Discontent’ which can be bought on Amazon for $0.12.
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About Akkadian Ventures: Akkadian Ventures is a direct secondary investment firm that offers liquidity to early employees and investors of venture-backed businesses.
Mike Gridley
Managing Director of Akkadian Ventures
Mike is a Managing Director and Partner of Akkadian Ventures. Previously, he was a member of the founding team of Industry Ventures, where he served as a Managing Director since 2004. Mike led Industry’s investments in Facebook (FB), Twitter, Pandora (P), LifeLock (LOCK), Jajah (Acquired by Telefonica), Cloudmark, Lowercase Capital (Twitter, Uber, Instagram), Walden Venture Capital (Pandora, Glam, SoundHound) and Madrona (Isilon), among others. He also helped grow Industry Ventures from less then $10 million AUM to over $1 billion AUM. Prior to Industry, Mike worked at BV Capital (formerly Bertelsmann Ventures) in San Francisco, a $275 million international venture capital fund. At BV, he sourced, structured, and managed direct venture investments. Earlier in his career, Mike worked in Business Development at Personify, a CRM analytics software company. Mike holds a BA from University of California, Berkeley, where he was a Regents and Alumni Scholar, and an MS from the London School of Economics.
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About Akkadian Ventures: Akkadian Ventures is a direct secondary investment firm that offers liquidity to early employees and investors of venture-backed businesses.
Mike Dinsdale
Managing Director of Akkadian Ventures
Mike Dinsdale joined DocuSign as chief financial officer in May 2010. Mike’s broad experience is highlighted by a proven track record of driving organizations to hyper growth. Most recently, he served as CFO of Lithium, a Software-as-a-Service platform and application suite provider. At Lithium, Mike raised millions in equity financing over three rounds and was also responsible for two strategic acquisitions. During his tenure Lithium’s valuation increased, positioning the company as the clear leader in social CRM. Prior to Lithium, Mike was employee #10 of Velocity11, a life sciences technology company, where he was instrumental in setting business strategy and aggressively driving revenue growth to $50M. Mike further fueled the growth of Velocity11 by dramatically increasing revenue, securing funding and playing a key role during the firm’s acquisition by Agilent Technologies in 2007. Mike holds a B.E.Sc in mechanical engineering from the University of Western Ontario, an MBA from McMaster University and the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
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About Akkadian Ventures, Plum Partners, TMD Ventures: Akkadian Ventures is a direct secondary investment firm that offers liquidity to early employees and investors of venture-backed businesses.
Ben Spero
Managing Director of Spectrum Equity
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About Spectrum Equity: Spectrum Equity, a private equity firm, provides capital and strategic support to internet, software, and information services companies.
John Connolly
Managing Director of Spectrum Equity
John joined Spectrum in October 2009. Prior to joining Spectrum, he was an Investment Banking Associate with Credit Suisse in their Media and Telecommunications Group. While at Credit Suisse, John focused on a variety of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and debt and equity financings.
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About Spectrum Equity: Spectrum Equity, a private equity firm, provides capital and strategic support to internet, software, and information services companies.
Stephen M. LeSieur
Managing Director of Spectrum Equity
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About GoodRx, Payer Compass, Spectrum Equity, Spectrum Equity, Teachers Pay Teachers: Spectrum Equity, a private equity firm, provides capital and strategic support to internet, software, and information services companies.
Victor Parker
Managing Director of Spectrum Equity
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About Agilis Systems, DispatchTrack, Prezi, Spectrum Equity, StoryCorps, Teachers Pay Teachers, Visual Lease, World Wildlife Fund: Spectrum Equity, a private equity firm, provides capital and strategic support to internet, software, and information services companies.
Jed Katz
Managing Director of Javelin Venture Partners
Jed Katz is the Managing Director at Javelin Venture Partners.
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About Javelin Venture Partners: Javelin Venture Partners invests in and partners closely with early-stage, software-enabled technology companies.
Alex Gurevich
Managing Director of Javelin Venture Partners
Alex is an early stage technology investor and Managing Director at Javelin Venture Partners. He led Javelin’s investments in Thumbtack, MasterClass, Clutter, Mythical Games, Stensul, Rinse, HitRecord, Estimote, Wheels, Telerivet, and Vendigo. Prior to joining Javelin, Alex was a Principal at DFJ Aurora, where he helped establish one of the first venture capital funds focused on high tech investments in Eastern Europe. Prior to DFJ, Alex was the first employee at ooma, a venture-backed company in the consumer electronics, VoIP (voice over IP) space, where he led the company’s initial product roll out, customer acquisition, and retail distribution strategy in product management and business development roles. Alex was also co-founder of Say-Hey-Hey.com, one of the web’s first free video dating sites, where he was in charge of all product development, fundraising, and business development efforts. Alex is also an angel investor in Citizen and a mentor at the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. Alex holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was co-President of the Venture Capital Club, a leader of a Global Study Trip, and a Board Fellow. He also holds a B.S. in Management Science and Engineering, a B.A. in International Relations, and an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University. During his time at Stanford, Alex was a Mayfield Fellow and led major technology centered research projects at General Motors and IBM for Stanford’s Center for Work, Technology, and Organization.
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About Clutter, FEM, Javelin Venture Partners, Telerivet, Weddington Way, WorkPatterns: Javelin Venture Partners invests in and partners closely with early-stage, software-enabled technology companies.
Jason Warner
Managing Director of Redpoint
Jason Warner is the MD at Redpoint. Jason cares deeply about the future of technology, developer experience, and growing companies. He is a people-oriented product technologist, who is passionate about building both the technical and human systems needed for scale and growth. Prior to joining GitHub, Jason was Vice President of Engineering at Heroku, the world’s leading PaaS and one of the largest cloud computing providers in the world. Before Heroku, Jason worked to make Linux accessible to everyone by leading product engineering for Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Phone at Canonical. Jason is also an active speaker, writer, and advisor on cloud computing, technology and leadership. His activities include formally and informally advising startup and established executives, as well as active coaching and mentoring future product and technology leaders. Jason graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a BS in Computer Science, and Rensselaer University with an MS in Computer Science. He lives with his family in Victoria, British Columbia, where he writes, sketches and enjoys the water as much as possible.
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About Redpoint: Redpoint Ventures partners with visionary founders to create new markets or redefine existing ones at the seed, early, and growth stages.
Tomasz Tunguz
Managing Director of Redpoint
Tomasz Tunguz is a venture capitalist at [Redpoint Ventures](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/redpoint-ventures). He is also a board member of Looker, ERPLY, Electric imp, inc., AxialMarket, Quantifind, Expensify, and more. Prior to joining Redpoint, Tomasz was the product manager for Google’s social media monetization team, including the Google-MySpace partnership. In addition, he managed the launches of AdSense into six new markets in Europe and Asia. Before Google, Tomasz developed systems for the Department of Homeland Security at Appian Corporation. Tomasz also co-founded Perquimans Systems, a provider of bilingual, tri-currency automated time billing and document management systems for top tier law firms in Chile. Tomasz holds a B.A. in mechanical engineering, a B.E. in system identification and control systems and Master of Engineering Management from Dartmouth College.
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About Redpoint: Redpoint Ventures partners with visionary founders to create new markets or redefine existing ones at the seed, early, and growth stages.
Elliot Geidt
Managing Director of Redpoint
Elliot Geidt is a Vice President with Redpoint Ventures where he helps lead the firm’s growth equity practice and focuses on opportunities in the software, infrastructure, Internet and mobile sectors. Prior to joining Redpoint, Elliot was with Spectrum Equity Investors, a $4 billion growth equity firm. Prior to Spectrum, Elliot worked for Goldman Sachs & Co. in the Investment Banking Group. Elliot holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Bright HealthCare, Nubank, Redpoint: Redpoint Ventures partners with visionary founders to create new markets or redefine existing ones at the seed, early, and growth stages.
Satish Dharmaraj
Managing Director of Redpoint
Satish Dharmaraj is a Managing Director of Redpoint Ventures. Prior to Redpoint, Satish was the founder/CEO of Zimbra. At Zimbra, he grew sales from inception to $20M in subscription sales in the first year of selling and nearly doubled sales the next year. Satish was directly responsible for leading the product vision, PR and the open source distribution strategy. Prior to founding Zimbra, Satish was VP of the Messaging Product Division at Openwave Systems, responsible for the email, unified messaging, voicemail, and instant messaging product lines. Satish managed the engineering and product management teams which had over 200 people and a $45 million budget. While at Openwave, Satish’s division deployed 180 million mailboxes worldwide with the largest deployments being 20 million mailboxes at JPhone and KDDI in Japan. Satish previously was part of the founding team at the unified messaging company Onebox, where he led engineering and network operations, and was instrumental in the sale of Onebox to Phone.com for $850 million. Prior to Onebox, Satish was at Sun Microsystems’ JavaSoft Division where he was responsible for the conception, design and implementation of Java Server Pages (JSPs); in addition, he led the team that designed and implemented the Java Servlet API.Satish previously held several positions at IBM and Transarc Corporations. Satish has BS and MS degrees in Computer Sciences and an executive management degree from Harvard Business School.
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About Redpoint: Redpoint Ventures partners with visionary founders to create new markets or redefine existing ones at the seed, early, and growth stages.
Tory Patterson
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Owl Ventures
Tory is the co-founder and Managing Director of Owl Ventures where he is actively involved with all facets of the firm and serves on the board of directors for Accelerate Learning (acquired by Carlyle Group), BetterLesson, Degreed, DreamBox Learning (acquired by TPG), Gather, Hazel Health, Kiddom, Labster, Newsela, Noodle Partners, Quizlet, Remind and uLesson. As one of the early pioneers in the next generation of leading EdTech companies, Tory has led investments in some of the most successful companies in the sector. As a lead investor and board member he has played a hands-on role helping leading edtech companies across all facets of development including core definition and measurement of value proposition, sales & distribution, hiring, funding and eventual paths to successful exit. Prior to Owl Ventures, Tory was a Partner at Catamount Ventures where he founded and ran one of the venture industry’s first education investment practices. There he led investments in education companies TenMarks (acquired by Amazon), MasteryConnect (acquired by Instructure), PresenceLearning and EdSurge (acquired by ISTE). Tory is a Pahara-Aspen Education Fellow and holds a B.A. in Economics from Williams College and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Catamount Ventures, Owl Ventures: Owl Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in education technology companies.
Amit Patel
Managing Director of Owl Ventures
Amit Patel is a Partner at Owl Ventures. He has experience scaling several education startups and is deeply committed to building new organizations that will create sustainable and higher quality education solutions. Amit has worked closely with several education companies, including PresenceLearning, Revolution Foods, TenMarks (acquired by Amazon), Raise, MasteryConnect, LearnZillion and EdSurge. Amit is a board observer for Panorama Education. Before joining Owl, he founded Personal Academic Trainers, an after-school tutoring company, and created the quality assurance program and institutionalized sales training for Mathnasium Learning Centers, an after-school math learning center franchise with over 450 locations on four continents. Amit also served as the Director of Technology for Success Academy Charter Schools, a premiere charter school network in New York City with 32 schools. Amit was an Education Pioneers Graduate School Fellow, and he earned a MBA/MA in Education from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and Graduate School of Education. He also received a BA in Mathematical Economic Analysis from Rice University and studied theatre/film at The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts and New York University.
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About Catamount Ventures, Owl Ventures: Owl Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in education technology companies.
